Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says Summary The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster has overtaken Tokyo–Yokohama as the world’s leading innovation…
Amazon US Prime Sign-Ups Slow Despite Expanded Promotion, Data Shows Summary Reuters reporting reviewed by Slashdot shows Amazon’s recent expansion of Prime Day promotions — extending discount sales to a…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two Israeli security researchers built an automated pipeline — dubbed Auto Exploit — that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches…
Hackers Are Sophisticated & Impatient — That Can Be Good Summary Ensar Seker argues that modern ransomware crews operate like organised SaaS businesses: professional, scalable and ruthless. They are also…
AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm Summary A team led from UCLA combined a non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) with an AI “co‑pilot” to improve control of…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary Researchers are close to creating crop plants that produce clonal (apomictic) seed — effectively bypassing sexual reproduction so a…
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that its global IT systems were “severely disrupted” by a cybersecurity incident. The company took the…
Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile Summary The imminent release of Apple iOS 26 will exclude iPhone XR, XS and XS Max models, potentially…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Graphic designers, writers and developers are finding new gig work cleaning up imperfect outputs from generative AI —…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism and Slashdot report that OpenAI quietly confirmed it scans users’ ChatGPT conversations and routes chats flagged for…
